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Nepal

Plane Carrying 14 Crashes in Nepal
August 24, 2010 KATMANDU - A small passenger plane carrying 14 people, including some foreigners, to the Mount Everest region crashed into the hills outside Nepal's capital in heavy rain Tuesday, officials said.
A witness said there were no survivors, but there was no immediate word from officials on casualties.

The area's police chief, Ram Bahadur Shrestha, said the plane went down near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Katmandu.

The German-built Dornier airplane was carrying 11 passengers and three crew members when bad weather forced it to try to return to Katmandu.
Rescue coordinators at the police headquarters in Katmandu said six foreigners were on board but could not give details.
Initial reports said there were 15 passengers and three crew members on board.

Shrestha said rescuers have not been able to reach the crash site and villagers were trying to help out.
The area has no roads and is only accessible by foot, but the route from the nearest town is blocked by a river flooded by monsoon rainfall.

Nepal Silk Road
April 12, 2016 eurekalert.org - Nepali textile find suggests Silk Road extended further south than previously thought. The first results of textile and dye analyses of cloth dated between 400-650 AD and recovered in Nepal.

Identification of degummed silk fibres and munjeet and Indian lac dyes in the textile finds suggests that imported materials from China and India were used in combination with those locally produced.

The cloth remains are of further significance as very few contemporary textile finds are known from Nepal. The dry climate and high altitude favoured the exceptional preservation of the organic materials.

One of the cloth objects recovered is composed of wool fabrics to which copper, glass and cloth beads are attached. It was found near a coffin of an adult along with a spectacular gold/silver funerary mask. The tombs were exposed to view in 2009 following a seismic event that calved off the facade of the cliff.
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